AFRICAN SYSTEM

TRAINING ACTIVITIES

Economic and Social Rights training for Local Councillors. Training on the obligations of municipalities and in particular local councillors on socio-economic rights and their social responsibility towards service delivery.
Local councillors bear tremendous responsibilities in the implementation of social and economic rights especially in the delivery of essential services to their communities. They are also responsible for articulating the needs of their communities to the provincial and national governments and developing budgets to address social and economic issues.

The objectives of the training would be to make local government councillors aware of their mandate within a human rights framework as provided for in the South African constitution. Focus is placed on the human rights issues facing their communities such as access to social and economic rights and their obligations in this regard. The training provides a platform for local councillors to voice their concerns and difficulties relating the implement ation of these rights.
The training is conducted in KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Limpopo and Western Cape provinces.

The African System for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. Training has been provided to a select number of representatives of organisations from the nine provinces.

Youth Development Programme: conduct skills development and capacity building training to a group of youths in marginalised communities and then provide them with support to undertake training of their peers within their own communities over a period of six months.

Constitution of South Africa

Amid a recent uptick in violence in the Central African Republic (CAR), United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday said he stood in solidarity with the crisis torn country and warned that attacks against defenseless civilians and UN ‘blue helmets’ may amount to war crimes.

United Nations Secretary-General António Gutteres condemned the killing of seven peacekeepers on Wednesday serving in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which is also confronting a lethal Ebola outbreak.

Africa’s crisis-torn Sahel region needs support from the international community “now more than ever,” the head of United Nations peacekeeping operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, told the Security Council on Thursday.

A range of international sanctions imposed against Eritrea nearly a decade ago, were unanimously lifted by the Security Council on Wednesday, four months after the signing of an historic peace agreement with Ethiopia in July.

Families in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are being supported by their government and the United Nations to protect the environment and build what the UN Development Programme calls “climate-resilient lives.”

With key national elections due next month in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), armed groups in the east of the country still threaten to derail the vote, the top United Nations official in the country told the Security Council on Tuesday.

To build a sustainable peace in Africa’s Sahel region, “urgent attention” is needed to mitigate the effects of climate change, and ensure that communities have access to sufficient opportunities, a joint meeting between the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and the UN Peacebuilding Commission highlighted on Tuesday.

Outer space and disaster response experts, on Monday, gathered at a United Nations forum in Bonn, Germany, to discuss how “big data” including social media, crowdsourcing and satellite imaging, can reduce the risk of natural disasters in Africa and support response efforts when they strike.